What's Behind The Trump Pardon Spree?

So Trump went on a pardon spree. For a while I couldn't figure out why. I was particularly baffled by Blagojevich's pardon. After all he's a Democrat...who's not black. Yes, there's the whole Apprentice thing but I think it goes deeper than that. People in the press are saying that Trump is pardoning people with connections to him. I'm actually sure that's a part of it but I think it to be a small part of it. I think we can find the reasoning in commentary that Trump has made recently regarding the Roger Stone. So here's Trump talking about Stone

So you see Trump is highly upset about the way the "justice department" has been handling cases. To underscore this point, look at this Washington Examiner piece:

Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz referred Comey for possible criminal prosecution after an investigation into the former FBI chief's handling of his memos, after which the agency quickly determined there was little on which to build a case.

Upon hearing the news, Trump spiraled into frequent tirades, raising his voice and swearing in the Oval Office, according to the Washington Post. "Can you [expletive] believe they didn’t charge him?” Trump said the night of the decision...

Comey has become a vocal Trump critic since being fired in May 2017, appears to be the subject of another leak investigation into a dubious Russian intelligence document that factored into how he handled the FBI investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's email server.

Trump also has complained about FBI Director Christopher Wray in recent months and believes it was unacceptable that Comey's former deputy, Andrew McCabe, has not been charged with a crime.

So I believe what Trump is doing is a "two can play this game" thing. The way I see it, Trump is showing that if the people in the "Justice Department" want to go easy on their friends and colleagues while going on hard on people they don't care for or who are not in their circle, then He's going to use his pardon power to reverse their decisions. I'm sure Bill Barr is not happy about it as it does, in fact, make the department look bad. However; this is a problem made by the department itself. Personally, I don't see how anyone involved with presenting false information to the FISA court has not been arrested and charged with perjury at a bare minimum. And I'm not talking about that one guy who falsified that one report. The reason it hasn't happened is because it goes all the way up the chain. And I mean ALL THE WAY UP. Like Dan Bogino says:

They all know each other.

Interview With A Grooming Gang Survivor

While the media give you Mr and Mrs Markle, here's an interview of one of the thousands of British nationals raped by gangs of foreign nationals while the police and social services agents did nothing.

Understand that the Left in the US would gladly bring this to the US.

White Ex-Democrat

Tim Pool talks with Jack Murphy about how he stopped being a Democrat. If you "can't understand" why there are [many] people who support Trump then you need to understand this interview.

Of particular interest to me was the discussion of signs in store windows in Berkley and the store owner (small business) saying that the anti-Trump signs were in the window to prevent the glass from being smashed by Antifa types (who are supported by Democrats and the media, I repeat myself). That's some mafia type stuff right there.

About The Electoral College

For a long time, including at the beginning of this blog, I have been very down on the EC. It was, of course, for selfish reasons. I thought, as most people now clamoring for it to be abolished that the popular vote should decide things. I didn't consider that the population of the US was dense in some places and sparse in others. Really, I didn't. Because of this, I really didn't understand why the system had been set up the way it had been. Today's people saying that there should be a popular vote don't really care about those areas of the country that would essentially be shut out of presidential voting. For all the talk of voter disenfranchisement, the popular vote would essentially discard of all votes not in states with populous cities. And so I ask the question: What reason would those states (and indeed the people in them) have for remaining in the United States? Anyway, for those reading this over the extended weekend, here's a video on the subject:

I do want to address one thing mentioned in the video. Tara Ross says that the founders didn't foresee an uneducated (or uninformed) public and this is a part of the problem. I disagree. As we know, elections, and therefore real political power was meant to be in the hands of land owning [white] freemen. The very class of people likely to be "educated" and have "something to lose" by bad decisions made by government. Indeed it is the expansion of "voting rights" that has caused a lot of changes. There are a number of electoral maps out there that show how elections would likely turn out based on one particular group voting (white males, White females, blacks, etc). By the maps I saw, Trump sweeps the entire country if the only people able to vote were those allowed in the beginning of the republic. So the question can be made whether it is really about 'education" or the different interests of various groups currently inhabiting the US.

Bloomberg: Right About The Stats. Wrong About The Solution

So folks are finding out that Bloomberg has said some true things about crime, particularly violent crime in NYC. They are SHOCKED. SHOCKED I tell you that Bloomberg,who got to see the data the head of the city of NY, stated that "minorities" were the "usual suspects" as well as victims of violence with guns ( I hate the term "gun violence" since guns are inanimate objects). Below is a clip from ABL where he, unfortunately defends the practice of Stop and Frisk:

Now I'm not going to dispute Bloomberg's commentary on the stats. I've written on the subject and any honest person who has seen the stats knows the deal. So this leads me to my major problem with Bloomberg: He's a tyrant.

Bloomberg is one of those white men who has a God complex. He thinks it's his job to "take care" of people whether they like it or not. He's the typical paternalistic liberal with a huge bank account. So for Mike, the ends justifies the means. If you have rights that get in the way of "getting it done", then to hell with your rights.

There is absolutely no doubt that Stop and Frisk is and was effective. I am not disputing that. The problem is that Stop And Frisk grossly violated the 4th Amendment rights of the citizens of NYC. This is what ABL apparently doesn't get or doesn't particularly care about. Simply being in a "high crime area" is not grounds for a warrant-less search. Yes, the police used the bullshit of "furtive movements" to justify these stops on paper, but what exactly is a furtive movement? Is going for your phone a "furtive movement"? Ask Diallo about that one.

Being black in a black high crime area doesn't rise to reasonable suspicion either. The fact of the matter is that even though black crime rates are many multiples of white crime rates, the vast majority of black people are law abiding. And given the high use of public transport in NYC and it's infamous nightlife, being out and about in the wee hours of the morning is also not a good reason to suspect someone of criminal intent.

Bloomberg knew this would come out hence his "I'm sorry" media blitz right before he announced his run.

We see you.

The other reason I am bothered by ABLs acceptance of Stop and Frisk is that by accepting it, he undermines his own support of the 2nd Amendment. After all, if your 4th Amendment rights are negotiable based on public safety then it is reasonable to say that your 2nd Amendment rights are as well. I accept neither argument. And this is also why Bloomberg is dangerous. He has no care for the 4th and he has no qualms about nuking the 2nd. See Virginia for what comes soon after a Bloomberg inauguration.

A man who is convinced of his own righteousness and that of his causes, who would steamroll any group standing in the way of his vision is a dangerous person. Back in the day when climate scientists were so convinced that we were all going to freeze to death that they seriously considered melting the ice caps, Nixon (I believe) told them to take a hike. A man like Bloomberg might likely do something that stupid 'cause he believes in what is currently passing as climate science.

Listen To Mr. Jones

I have my differences with Mr. Jones but in his latest at CNN, he says some things that I've been saying for years now:

At the same time, warning the Democrats. What he was saying to African-Americans can be effective. You may not like it but he mentioned HBCUs, black colleges have been struggling for a long time, a bunch of them have gone under, he threw a lifeline to them in real life in his budget. He talked about that. He talked about criminal justice reform. He talked about opportunity zones...

The thing about it is, and we've got to wake up, folks, there's a whole bubble thing that goes on, he said s-hole nations, therefore all black people are going to hate him forever. That ain't necessarily so. I think what you're going to see him do, you may not like my rhetoric, but look at my results and my record to black people, if he narrow casts that, it's going to be effective. Which means, as we move through this primary process, we've got to pay a lot more attention both to what's going on with the Latino vote. Are we going to get a benefit in terms of having them respond and with the black vote. It it going to be a split off, especially for black male voters? We've got to be clinical about this stuff. We get so emotional about it. That was a warning to us. That was a warning shot across the bow to us Democrats that he's going after enough black votes to cause us problems. It's not just suburban votes, he's going after black votes.

Mind you, I'm not positive on so called "criminal justice reform" because I see no such thing as "mass incarceration". If you do the crime and get caught, you go to jail. The way to lower incarceration rates is to lower crime rates. Bing, bang, done. As NYC is learning all over again, you take away disincentives to criminal activity, you get more of it.

That said, I mentioned years ago that the so called MAGA philosophy would pay dividends for black people, particularly those involved in manual labour:

In May 2017, the Trump administration sent letters to about 800 employees, saying they weren’t authorized to work in the United States, records examined by the Chicago Sun-Times show.

Those Hispanic employees didn’t return to work, leaving the bakery desperate to fill their jobs. So the company turned to another placement agency, Metro Staff Inc., and it provided Cloverhill with workers screened through the government’s “E-Verification” program. Most of those new employees are African American.

So Trump, who got probably less than 10% of the Black vote, if that, put money in black folks pockets, by being aggressive against those persons who are illegally present in the US, who were filling jobs that would have gone to black workers. Yet and still you have black democrats who are for open borders which has a direct negative impact on black blue collar workers.

Now what right thinking blue collar black worker, is going to look at the job he got via Trump's policies and look at the extra money in his account due to tax law changes, opposed by Democrats across the board, and say:

"Nah, I'd rather be laid off for illegal foreign nationals and give more money to the federal government."

It's like a Jamaican joke I heard years ago about a wife who comes home to find a strange woman in her bedroom. She confronts her husband about the woman he is obviously cheating with. He explains how x, y and z thing the wife enjoys having and stuff came from the "relationship" with the slumbering woman. The wife then says to go get a blanket to make sure she didn't catch a cold while sleeping.

Similarly, I'm saying that even if you think the president is a racist pig, use the racist pig to your benefit.

Of course Jones had to do silly talk as well:

But he's doing something else. And it has to do with how he's going to manage race in this thing and there seems to be a tradeoff between the Latinos and the African-Americans, that's what you see. he went hard on the sanctuary city stuff. That is very, very disturbing. It turns out sanctuary cities are safer than non-sanctuary cities. The Cato Institute, which is libertarian, have come out and said immigrants are committing less crime. So, for some reason he thinks that doubling down on the anti-immigrant piece is a big part of this thing.

Say it with me: illegal alien. It's anti-illegal alien. And the only "sanctuary cities" that are safer than "non-sanctuary cities" are those that are VERY white. Unfortunately the more non-White and non-Asian people are in a city, the higher the violent crime rates.

Also from Jones:

The thing about it is, and we've got to wake up, folks, there's a whole bubble thing that goes on, he said s-hole nations, therefore all black people are going to hate him forever. That ain't necessarily so.

Black folks, that is, descendants of slavery who live in the American bubble, either don't know about the black world, or specifically lie about it in order to guilt trip white people. But those in the know, know that shit hole places exist:

People poo in the bags at night, and they tie it and throw it and throw it away," Abdallah tells Al Jazeera.

The flying toilets are a symptom of Kibera's lack of a proper sewage system.

Hardly any in this impoverished corner of Nairobi has the luxury of a toilet inside their home. Some have an outdoor toilet, shared between multiple dwellings, but these are simple pit latrines that need to be emptied - usually into the open sewers outside.

And

Plastic bags, knotted and sagging, soar across the slum late at night.

They bounce off tin roofs, splatter against mud walls patched with tin cans and tumble down the steep hillside, where they sprout every few feet like plastic weeds. In the morning, they are trampled into the ground.

After 33 years in this shantytown known as Deep Sea, Cecilia Wahu barely notices the bags anymore. They are called "flying toilets," and because no one here has a bathroom, everyone has thrown a few...

Many black folks were ashamed cause of what Trump said. At the same time, many knew it to be absolutely true. And we *should* be shamed for having such slums in existence in our homeland.

So yeah, Jones is awake to the fact that thinking black people, particularly black men, who have benefited the most from the policies enacted by Trump are not going to be swayed as much by the 'he's racist" argument. Rather they are going to take a cue from that song and ask Democrats: What have you done for me lately? And right now, the Democrats have no answer whatsoever for any straight black male who is unashamed of being so and not trying to be a leech on society.

None.

Pie R Squared

So CBS (among others I presume) is running around showing people pies in an attempt to show them how it's unfair that the rich pay so little in taxes and how going after their wealth is the only way to do things for "the rest of us:. It's standard "scarcity mentality" that plagues so many of the Left. The way they see it, and I did once, the pie is of finite proportions and therefore the only way people at the top get more is by taking from the rest. of course, if you look at the economy as food, which, once consumed is all gone, it seems logical. So here's a pie lesson for those who don't get it.

Here's a pie:

Let's call it "small pie". For demonstration purposes, we'll assume "the rich" have half the pie. The "middle class" has 40 percent of the pie and the poor 10%. These numbers are not accurate and being used for demonstration purposes. So the pie is the total wealth. How do we calculate the total wealth? Well the total wealth is the area of the pie. The math for that is pi* r*r (pi times the radius squared). For simplicities sake, lets say that the radius is 1. It makes the math easy to follow. so:

3.14 *(1 * 1) = 3.14.

Everyone follow? Let's assume that 3.14 is $3.14 trillion. It's not in real life, but again, this is to simplify the math. So "The rich" own half of that so that's:

3.14 / 2

$1.57 trillion.

Doing the rest of the pie we have $1.25 trillion for the middle class and $314 billion for the poor. Add that all up and we get a shade under 3.14. Remember pi is a long number so...

So what happens if we grow the pie? Which you don't hear a single socialist running for office recommending?

So here is a bigger pie which I'll call "large pie":

Let's assume that the radius is exactly 2X the small pie. And no, economies do not grow 2X just like that. Again we're keeping it simple for the math. So let's go back to our maths. By growing the pie to 2R we find the total wealth is; 3.14 *(2*2)= 12.56

Huge increase in overall wealth eh?

Now let's assume that the slices "owned" by each respective group stay the same (it doesn't but that's another discussion). How much does each group have?

Rich: 12.56/2= $6.28 trillion. Nice jump. Yuge even.

Middle class: 12.56*.4 -= $5.024 trillion. An almost 5 fold increase in wealth.

Poor= 12.56*.1= $1.2 trillion. Well damn. The rich get richer and the poor....get richer. Well I'll be.

So simple math tells us that rather than what the Sander's, Warrens, Cortez's and media elites of the world tell us, it is possible to increase the wealth of the poor without taking from the rich or middle class.

Who knew?

Imagine Being This Brainwashed By The Media

Imagine being/supporting Democrats and having this attitude when you have open socialists and communists in your party with seats in various levels of government and education.